Larry Gelbart Quotes
I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.Larry Gelbart
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My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
Nathan Fillion -
I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
Harlan Coben -
I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
Zadie Smith -
I really tend to write in retrospect.
Randy Houser -
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
P. J. O'Rourke -
I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
Wayne Dyer
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
Oliver North -
I write romance because I love to read romance.
Rachel Gibson -
When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
Umberto Eco -
I just write mechanical things.
Barry Zito -
I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
Taylor Swift
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
Wendi Deng Murdoch -
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
Tanith Lee -
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
Taylor Swift -
If you can write it, I can be it.
Karen Black -
I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
Ted Dekker
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There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself.
Earl Weaver -
Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.
Ray Bradbury -
After Vietnam and Watergate, and later the advent of twenty-four-hour cable news, journalism became noticeably more subjective and judgmental.18 Coverage was focused more on mediating what public people were saying than simply reporting it.
Bill Kovach -
It's the greatest achievement I've ever witnessed in all my years of being a coach and a television personality. I really, absolutely have been blown away.
Dick Vitale -
I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.
Larry Gelbart